This Friday's main release is going to be Yash Raj Films' Ali Abbas Zafar directed Priyanka, Irrfan, Ranveer and Arjun starrer, GUNDAY. Given the hype and anticipation, based on some superb promotion as also reasonably popular music, GUNDAY is expected to embark on a good start at the ticket window.
It was expected that Dharma and Phantom Productions' Sidharth, Adah and Parineeti starrer HASEE TOH PHASEE would witness a good weekend haul. The film did see a good pick up during the weekend but could show just a decent 17-18 crore for its effort. With Yash Raj Films' GUNDAY all set to take a lot of screens and hog the limelight this Friday onwards, HASEE TOH PHASEE has its task cut out. The film has done decently in the overseas (in particular US) grossing ?76,000 from UK and $337,000 from the US during the opening weekend (7-9 February).
The other releases of the week, the Adhyayan Suman starrer HEARTLESS, the Nila Madhab Panda directed BABLOO HAPPY HAI as also True Films' YA RAB have failed at the box-office.
Moving on, the Abhay Deol starrer, ONE BY TWO, saw a rejection from the audience collecting 50 lakhs from Bombay (collections from other cinemas unreceived), 7 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 3 lakhs from Surat, 2.50 lakhs from Baroda (collections from 2 cinemas unreceived), 1.50 lakhs from Rajkot, 12 lakhs from Pune, 1.55 lakhs from Nasik, 1.50 lakhs from Goa, 40 lakhs from Delhi city, 6.25 lakhs from Noida, 6.50 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 2.15 lakhs from Kanpur, 3 lakhs from Lucknow, 1 lakh from Allahabad, 10 lakhs from Gurgaon, 1.50 lakhs from Faridabad, 4 lakhs from Chandigarh, 2.15 lakhs from Jalandhar, 1.15 lakhs from Amritsar, 2.15 lakhs from Ludhiana, 10 lakhs from Calcutta, 3 lakhs from Nagpur, 1.50 lakhs from Jabalpur, 2.25 lakhs from Raipur, 3.50 lakhs from Indore, 1 lakh from Gwalior, 1.15 lakhs from Bhopal, 5 lakhs from Jaipur, 1.50 lakhs from Kota, 1 lakh from Udaipur, 5.50 lakhs from Hyderabad, 1 lakh from Aurangabad, 15 lakhs from Bangalore and 1 lakh from Mangalore. Netting 2.75 crore during the opening week, ONE BY TWO is a box-office debacle.
After a decent first week, the Sohail Khan directed Salman Khan starrer JAI HO saw a huge dip in the second week (barring the now tax-free UP and Gujarat) as it collected 2.25 crore from Bombay (collections from other cinemas unreceived), 1 crore from Ahmedabad, 27 lakhs from Surat, 25 lakhs from Baroda (collections from 5 cinemas unreceived), 36 lakhs from Rajkot, 40 lakhs from Pune, 11 lakhs from Nasik, 6.50 lakhs from Goa, 3 lakhs from Belgaum, 1.75 crore from Delhi city, 20 lakhs from Noida, 22 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 20.75 lakhs from Kanpur, 35.75 lakhs from Lucknow, 7.65 lakhs from Allahabad, 5 lakhs from Aligarh, 25 lakhs from Gurgaon, 5 lakhs from Faridabad, 2.50 lakhs from Kurukshetra, 3.25 lakhs from Panipat, 13.50 lakhs from Chandigarh, 10 lakhs from Jalandhar, 7.50 lakhs from Amritsar, 7 lakhs from Ludhiana, 3.50 lakhs from Bhatinda, 40 lakhs from Calcutta, 6.50 lakhs from Siliguri, 4 lakhs from Patna, 3.50 lakhs from Ranchi, 4.50 lakhs from Bhubaneshwar, 2.50 lakhs from Guwahati, 30 lakhs from Nagpur, 13.50 lakhs from Jabalpur, 20 lakhs from Raipur, 35 lakhs from Indore, 11 lakhs from Bhopal (collections from 5 cinemas unreceived), 4.50 lakhs from Gwalior (collections from 4 cinemas unreceived), 75 lakhs from Jaipur, 18.25 lakhs from Jodhpur, 7.50 lakhs from Ajmer, 4.50 lakhs from Bikaner, 9.50 lakhs from Kota, 9.50 lakhs from Udaipur, 25 lakhs from Hyderabad, 6 lakhs from Aurangabad (collections from 2 cinemas unreceived), 30 lakhs from Bangalore, 2.50 lakhs from Mangalore, 1.50 lakhs from Visakhapatnam and 1 lakh from Kochi. Adding another 19 crore, JAI HO has netted 104 crore in two weeks from India and is an above average fare, based on the worldwide run. JAI HO has done quite well in the overseas grossing ?420,000 from UK and $1,230,000 from the US till the third weekend (7-9 February).
